Telephone-support.



PATENTED AUG. 11, 1908. W. S. AUNGST.

TELEPHONE SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 10 1907 2 SH-EETS SHEET 1' No. 895,833. PATENTEDAUG. 11, 1908.

W. S. AUNGST. TELEPHONE SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 10,1907.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

# wilt UNITED STATE-IS.

WILLIAM S. AUNGST,

or ALLlANCE, OHIO.

TELEPHONE-SUPPORT.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 11 1908.

Application filed May 10, 1907. Serial No. 372,991.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. AUNosT, of Alliance, in the county of'Stark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Telepl1one-Supports; and I do hereby declare the following tube afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers'skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethesame.

7 My invention relates to animprovement in desk attachments forsupporting portable telephones, theobject being to'proyide a supportcapableof being elevated or lowered, moved towardor away fromthe-supporting standard, or turned to the side, thus enabling thetelephone transmitter to be moved to and positively held in any positionwithin the range of various adjustments of the holder.

Mv .invention consists in the'parts and combinations of parts as will bemore fully described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in elevation of myimprovement, the sections of the bracket being shown closed up in fulllines and distended in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a view in section throughsame, and Fig. 3 is anenlargedview showing the sliding and clampingconnection between the upright standard and the bracket.

1 represents ametal rod or standard, secured at its lower end to asuitable base 2, which in the present instance, is a clamp having athumb screw 3 for its movable at.-

tachment to the ed e of a desk the standard h 7 1 being secured in thesocket 4 at the upper end of the clamp by the screw 5.

The standard 1 may be angular or cylindrical in shape and of a lengthSufiicient to permit. of all reasonable and necessary vertical movementof the bracket carrying the-telephone transmitter. This horizontalbracket is made in sections, preferably-four, the inner end one 6 ofwhich is provided near its rear end with a vertical opening 7 of a sizeslightly greater than the cross section of the standard so as to permit.of the free vertical movement of the bracket on the stamiard, and at thesame time, act as a clamp for sustainin the bracket in any horizontalad-- justment. at which it may be placed on the standard.

As the opening through the section 6 is but slightly greater than thediameter of the standard, it will be seen that the weight. of

the bracket falls on the rear u per edge and the front lower edge of thewall of the opening 7, which edges biting against the standard, act as aclamp and sustain the bracket -in position against accidentaldisplacement-.

The greater the weight on the bracket, the greater the clamping action,hence in order to adjust the bracketvertically it is simply necessary tograsp the bracket and lift same sufficiently to take the weight elf theclamping edges of the wall of the opening through section 6 of thebracket, which leaves the latter free to be elevated or lowered, andwhen the bracket is released its clamping edges; will hold it in theposition to which it has been adjusted.

In the present instance I have shown the rear .end of the section 6closed bv a solid block the latter having the opening 7 for the standard1, but it is evident that the opening may be directly through the tubeconstituting section 6 of the bracket. This bracket is made up of aseries of telescopic sections 6, 8, 9 and 9 made of metal, the sections6, 8 and 9 being tubes and the other either of tubing or solid metal.Each section 8 and 9. is provided with a longitudinal groove 10 closedat its inner end, and engaged by stops 1 1 carried respectively by thesections 6 and 8, the stop 11 in section 6 engaging the groove insection 8 and the stop 11 carried by section 8 engaging the groove insection 9. Tliese stops and grooves prevent any rotary movements of thesections and limit their outward movements. The outer section 9 of thisextensible bracket is slotted to receive. a pin carried by section 9 andis bent downwardly, rearwardly and outwardly forming the foot 12 onwhich the telephonetransmitter rests. cured to the foot 12 is theY-shaped clamp, having two toes 13 adapted to overlap or engage the baseof the transmitter at two points; the latter being engaged at a thirdpoint by the rearwardly bent portion of the section 9 of the bracket.The stem 14 of the clamp is provided with an elongated slot having itsupper walls beveled to receive the beveled head 15 at one end of a screw16 passing through the 'foot 12. A wingnut 17 is screwed on the lowerend of the screw 16 and engages the under face of the foot 12. By thisarrangement the clamping toes 13 may be adusted to suit bases ofdifferent. sizes and clamp them securely to the bracket. With a bracketthus constructed a telephone transmitter may be supported at anyconvenient height to suit the user, and the bracket may be manipulatedto carry the transmitter out of the way, or bring it into any positionmost convenient for the user.

While I have described the improvement as a support for a telephone, itis clearly evident that the bracket may support a tray or tool rack oran electric lam and when the standard 1 is made cylindrical incross-section, as shown inFig. 1, the bracket can be rotated or turnedthereon so as to carry the tele hone, tray, etc., out of the way;

aving fullyzdescribed my invention what I claim as new and desire'tosecure by Letters-Patent, is,

1. A desk attachment for supporting a portable telephone, com risin astandard,

support a telephone, whereby means for sustaining sai stan ard in anulpright position, a bracket movable on t e standard and provided nearone end with a hole for the accommodation of the standard' said holehaving sli htly greater diameter than the diameter of t e standard, andmeans at the free end of said bracket to receive and the weight upon thefree end of said bracket will slightly amass "passage- 0 said standardand the free end of the other end section terminating in a foot, andclamping means on said foot for clamping a telephone to said foot.

3. The combination with a standard, of

a horizontal bracket vertically adjustable thereon, and made u oftelescopic sections,

means for limiting t e movements of said sections, a telephone'su ortcarried by the outer end section of said hracket, and means for clampingthe telephone in said support.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscribmg witnesses.

WILLIAM S. AUNGST. Witnesses:

ARTHUR S. AUNGs'r, MAURICE JONES.

